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With Dan Daly, Fall 2023

Written by jose sebastian alberdi
Scenic Design by Gaya Maria Chatterjee

POCKET CHANGE is an anthology of eleven short plays your coins perform for you. Housed within a small cardboard theater, named Lin-coin Cent-er, the plays use literal coins as the actors. The complete project consists of this theater, a small booklet containing the plays and associated notes, and a series of backdrops created for each of the plays. Basically, POCKET CHANGE is an intimate piece of toy theater that can be performed by anyone, anywhere. https://dandalydesign.gumroad.com/l/pocketchange

The playwrights anthologized in POCKET CHANGE are:

jose sebastian alberdi
Jonathan Alexandratos
Dan Daly
John Michael DiResta
Anisa George and three six-year-olds
Bryan Halperin
Nikolai Mishler
Clay (Claire) Moodey
Grace Oberhofer
Andrew Rincón
Ashley Lauren Rogers

The scenic designers and illustrators anthologized in POCKET CHANGE are:

Gaya Chatterjee
Caitlin Ayer
Jacquelyn Guiterrez
Laura Valenti
Jessica Emerson
Dahlia Al-Habieli
Shiny Skunk
Lex Gernon-Wyatt
Chris Raintree
Thomas Lauria
Jess Goerold

OTHER FORMS OF (OFO) THEATER creates and supports performances that do not fit neatly into the definition of “theatre” and exist below what is deemed commercially viable. We experiment with the theatrical form and rethink what performance is, not just artistically but also structurally. We test out new forms of artistic creation, financing structures, and organizational layouts. Through this we discover ways to make theatre more equitable, just, and fair. Ofo Theater is committed to exceptionally small, experimental, works that cannot scale, performances that eschew historic theatrical space, and shows that only tangentially relate to what we are taught theater is.